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By Adam Cailler & Zesha Saleem Russia claims to have control over five villages in northeast Ukraine \- as more than 1,700 civilians flee from Vovchansk, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. While Ukrainian officials haven’t officially confirmed whether Russia has taken the villages in question, reports from Ukrainian journalists seem to suggest that they have. These villages are located in a disputed “grey zone” along the border of Ukraine’s Kharkiv region and Russia. Ukrainian journalists suggest that the villages of Borysivka, Ohirtseve, Pylna and Strilecha were captured by Russian fo…

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